Self-guided walking tours in your headphones

All the walks

On every walk, someone from the place tells you their city in your ear. Choose who to walk with.

Artisanal fishing boats moored in the port of Punta del Este

Del mar comemos

From the port to the point

Summer, 1912. A fisherman puts out to sea with his nine-year-old son, after a black drum that would pay off everything they owe. They say it's longer than the boy.

$4.99 35 min Starts at the port, by Ártico

The shore of Playa Mansa late in the day, with the towers of the Williman rambla behind

With Vashi, a lifeguard on this beach for forty seasons. He walks the same seven markers every evening, towards the peninsula, and swears it is not for the sunset. At the last one he tells you what it is for.

$4.99 30 min Starts at marker 7 on the Mansa rambla

The Punta del Este lighthouse above the houses of the port, at sunset

La otra Punta del Este

The peninsula

With Graciela, born here when this was a fishing village. She shows you the Punta that is not on the postcards and tells you about a love she kept hidden for sixty years.

$4.99 60 min Starts at La Mano

The Puerta de la Ciudadela, a stone arch standing on its own in the middle of the street, with people walking through it. Through it you can see Plaza Independencia and the statue of Artigas

Dentro de la muralla

A gatekeeper waits for a woman at a gate nobody shuts any more

A self-guided walking tour of Ciudad Vieja, with a story in your headphones. In 1829, for the first time, Montevideo leaves its gates open all night. An old gatekeeper goes to his post anyway, in case the woman he used to let through still comes.

$U 199 45 min Starts at the Puerta de la Ciudadela, on the Plaza Independencia side

Plaza Independencia at night, with the Artigas monument and the Palacio Salvo lit up

La noche de la Ciudad Vieja

By night, from Plaza Independencia to Plaza Matriz

Colonial Montevideo locked itself in at night. They say that one morning in 1809, when the gates were opened, a man in a shroud was found outside.

$U 390 40 min Starts outside the Palacio Salvo

Pocitos beach seen from Trouville, with the buildings along the rambla behind it

Lo que nunca te contaron de Pocitos

The Pocitos rambla and what lies beneath it

What you walk past every evening between Kibón and Trouville and nobody ever told you about: a stream in a pipe, a hotel with a pier out over the river, where the neighbourhood got its name. All of it true.

$U 390 40 min Starts at Kibón, on the Pocitos rambla

Photos: Romerito Pontes · Rosina Peixoto · Santiago Mazzarovich · Felipe Restrepo Acosta · Cakebossmvd · CC BY-SA

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